The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has just launched a competition for secondary schools students (Years 9-13) focusing on a theme of 'Safer Journeys for Teens'. The competition encourages the creative re-use of content and data from the NZTA websites and publications.
The incredibly popular 'Legend' advert is just one example of the content available for remixing in the competition.
In addition to creating a remix or mashup, students will have to provide evidence that they...
Here at DigitalNZ HQ, we're constantly adding new content from amazing digital collections around New Zealand (and the world!). With over 25 million items already available through the DigitalNZ search site, we thought it'd be useful to highlight various content partners and their awesome contributions!
It's our last week of work here at DigitalNZ headquarters, and we're busy tying up loose ends and eating way too much chocolate. We thought we'd make our last blogpost of 2011 a fun romp through some of the team's favourite images in DigitalNZ.
Woman modelling Daphne lingerie
Woman modelling Daphne lingerie. K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives. Ref: 1/2-211738-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22872947
2011 has been a mighty big year for Team DigitalNZ.
One of the biggest achievements, (though hidden to most) was a complete overhaul of our technical infrastructure to improve performance and set DigitalNZ up for major growth. This was a very big and important job and that fact that you probably haven't noticed it is a very good thing.
In August, Max Ogden, an American developer and open web advocate, tweeted this: "I would love for 'small data' to be the 'slow food' of the internet".
At the time I thought, "Right on. That’s a really interesting idea." Then I did what most of us do on Twitter when we see something poignant. I re-tweeted it, I even favourited it… and then I forgot all...
This is my first blogpost. Hi, I'm Dan. I'm a content analyst in the DigitalNZ team, but people around here call me "The Harvester Guy".
Most people (including me before I started here) associate the word "harvester" with those big agricultural combine harvester things. If you do a google image search for "harvester" you get a pretty awesome assortment of these machines, with all sorts of different attachments, shapes and sizes for harvesting a variety of different crops. I...
